Animafest Zagreb 2016: Selection Results and More

46 shorts and 9 feature films in the international competition of the 2016 Croatian animation fest.

The 26th edition of World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb brings once more an eclectic selection of animated shorts, combining (second year in a row) its short and feature film editions.

Never a festival to miss, it has now selected 55 films out of 1700 entries from more than 70 countries across the world , which compete for the festival's prizes (Animafest award-winners directly qualify for the European Cartoon d'Or Award, but are also included in the Oscar run).

46 films participate in the short competiion.

The recently awarded return of Igor Kovalyov (Russia) with his Before Love, Theodor Ushev with Blind Vaysha, Georges Scwizgebel with his Erlking (Switerland), the César-awarded Céline Devaux with Sunday Lunch (France) are only some of the European choices.

The irreverent Phil Mulloy comes back with the 6-minute Endgame, a no-dialogue, weekend story of relaxation which runs wild.

Chinese indie director Lei Lei competes with Books on Books:

Veljko Popović (Dove Sei, Amor Mio?) is one of the 4 Croatian artists who competes with Planemo.

In a society where everyone mindlessly orbits around their daily routines, what happens when a person gets ejected from the system? They might just find themselves rapidly pushed out of the habitable zone (distributed by Bonobo Studio).

US competes with the documentary (and Sundance winner) Nuts! about the eccentric genius doctor John Romulus Brinkley.

Raul Garcia's Extraordinary Tales on Edgar Allan Poe short stories (took him 9 years to make) competes; two politically-minded features, the Colombian political thriller Sabogal and Anca Damian's Magic Mountain, and the modernist April and the Extraordinary World by Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci complete the European feature slate.

Tthe sci-fi Harmony by Michael Arias and Takashi Nakamura, and the cyberpunk tale Empire of Corpses, focusing on Sherlock Holmes and John Watson by Ryotaro Makihara,are the two Japanese feature competition entries.

Empire of Corpses

A special programme section will be dedicated to Raoul Servais (1928), a Belgian master of animation, the winner of this year's Animafest Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be presented to him at the official opening ceremony in Zagreb, 6 June 2016.

41 student films have been selected for this year's edition. A detailed festival line-up in 11 sections of the programme will be presented early in April 2016.

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